Global Battlefields: A No-Holds-Barred Reckoning

Max Elbaum Convergence
Walden Bello’s memoir wrestles with tough questions of political strategy and radical ethics in a world full of uprisings, wars, obscene inequality, and aggressive counter-revolutionary movements.

Have We Found Life on Planet K1-18b?

Chris Impey The Conversation
Astronomer Carl Sagan asserted that ‘Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.’ What precisely does that mean? And does the evidence of life on a distant planet recently detected by the James Webb Space Telescope meet that challenge?

Small Ode to Joy

Charlotte Muse At the Corner of Hope and Despair
Poet Charlotte Muse knows this life is fleeting, and yet it is the sweetest comfort in the face of political and social chaos.

Trump & Tariffs | John Oliver

John Oliver discusses the ongoing chaos surrounding Donald Trump and tariffs, why the past week could have lasting repercussions, and why your grandma might be looking to start an OnlyFans.

Who's Breaking Immigration Law: Not Who You Think

Corporations are bringing in hundreds of thousands of foreign farmworkers under the H-2A visa program: basically a human trafficking scheme — to replace farmworkers who unionize and fight for higher pay.

Whither American Catholics?

Harold Meyerson The American Prospect
The Church in the U.S., as in much of Europe, is shrinking. In exiting the Church, liberals and radicals and the just plain disgusted have left in their wake a right-wing laity and priesthood arrayed against liberalism’s embrace of the marginalized.